Currently Reading

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power, Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake
Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most, George McKeown
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Scott H. Young
We Are The Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, Edited by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth

A collection of books that I've read in chronological order:

2026

Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, Eli Saslow
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

2025

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
The World is Made of Stories, David R. Loy
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Eliezer Yudkowsky
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks
Playground, Richard Powers
Most Intimate, A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges, Pat Enkyo O'Hara
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall B. Rosenburg
Living Nonviolent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenburg
Indra's Net, a Sonnet Sequence, Hollis G. Zelinsky
Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, Kazuaki Tanahashi
Carbon: The Book of Life, Paul Hawken
Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World, Joanna Macy
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center, Rhaina Cohen
The Buddha in Jail, Cuong Lu
A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time, Joanna Macy, Stephanie Kaza
Say What you Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer

2024

Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Jocko Willink
The Way It Is, Ajahn Sumedho
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, David Foster Wallace
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Art and Fear, David Bayles
The Definitive Book of Body Language, Allen Pease
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, Eric Greitens
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries, Thich Nhat Hanh
A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World, David R. Loy
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacobs
The Wave, Todd Strasser
The Secret Pulse of Time, Stefan Klein
Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond, David R. Loy
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, Cal Newport
The Four Noble Truths, Bhikku Sumedho
Zen Wisdom for the Anxious: Simple Advice from a Zen Buddhist Monk, Shinsuke Hosokawa
Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism, David R. Loy
Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis, David R. Loy
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan W. Watts
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Carse
Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo, Shohaku Okamura
Tao - A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao Te Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries, Chang Chung-yuan
Yours for the Taking, Gabrielle Korn
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, Alan W. Watts
The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy, David R. Loy
The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory, David R. Loy
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng, Gautama Buddha, Trans. A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam
The Way of Zen, Alan W. Watts
The Archer, Paulo Coelho
In My Own Way: An Autobiography, Alan W. Watts
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Jonathan Haidt
Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method, Rebecca Li
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
The Courage to be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, Ichiro Kishimi
On Fear, Jiddu Krishnamurti
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist View of Animal Slaughter and Meat Eating, Roshi Philip Kapleau

books I read on random dates before I started tracking

Sula, Toni Morrison
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
How to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
You Asked for Perfect, Laura, Silverman
If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang
Love from A to Z, S. K. Ali
Love from Mecca to Medina, S. K. Ali
The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang
They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera
Saints and Misfits, S. K. Ali
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Jean Sasson
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Scythe, Neal Shusterman
Thunderhead, Neal Shusterman
The Toll, Neal Shusterman
Gleanings, Neal Shusterman
Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, Lana Wood
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, Lauren James
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Sound of Waves, Mishima Yuko
Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose
The Wave, Todd Strasser